Taking band name suggestions for our Copenhagen Filmspotting meetup...

Matt has gone above and beyond to support so many writers. Now it’s time to support him.

There is a virtual book launch for "My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens" happening Friday, March 6, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET / 14:00 ET / 11:00 PT. Contact @miserchristmas.bsky.social or @gregdember.bsky.social for the link. www.bloomsbury.com/us/my-imposs...

Goodbye to chilly Stockholm and its ice-floating swans, on to Copenhagen.

For anyone interested, we did a Contemporary Iranian Cinema Marathon on Filmspotting in 2012. www.filmspotting.net/contemporary...

🚨 Calling all aspiring film critics in the Chicagoland area! 🚨 Applications for the Chicago Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program are now open! Details and how to apply here: chicagofilmcritics.org/grant Deadline to apply is March 27th, 2026!

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And away we go! Chicago Critics Film Festival is coming soon.

For anyone interested, we did a Contemporary Iranian Cinema Marathon on Filmspotting in 2012. www.filmspotting.net/contemporary...

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Just had a blast recording a Top 5 Catherine O'Hara Characters episode of Filmspotting, out this Friday. She was special.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 Come work with me and a bunch of people who are much more interesting than me on the @propublica.org Audience team! It's a full-time, 2-year position with benefits. Details, including salary range and application info, here👇👇

Will shamelessly use this bit of weird-ass news to re-up a reported feature I did a decade ago about how a committee of black scholars advised o the creation of Addy. The look and texture of her hair was definitely carefully considered: slate.com/culture/2016...

Coming to close to a milestone on my newsletter, which I have been writing for 5+ years If you are a fan of women directors, indie, international, and silent film, please give it a gander Subscribe: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/subscribe Paid subscribers have access to an archive of 400 articles

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Religious Cinema for Non-Believers: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/04/10/m...

The first edition of this book was very good, and I'm excited to read this new edition. Don't miss out on a chance to get a signed copy from a person some are calling "one the best up-and-coming Chicago critics in the business" (me, I am saying that)

Are you an Atlanta-area film critic, podcaster, video essayist, or entertainment journalist with 5+ years of relevant experience? Our Atlanta Film Critics Circle application period closes at the end of February. For more information or to apply: atlfilmcritics.org/contact/ #AFCC

If you feel like directly supporting things that are made by real humans with love & care—with no ads, hot takes, or AI—a reminder that we're still dealing with the effects of this, and that literally every subscription gets us that much closer to ensuring we can keep doing this for awhile!

I joined Adam and Josh to talk WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026) over on the Filmspotting podcast:

For Chicago folks, our library has a lot of Frederick Wiseman work on DVD

The Robert Duvall performance you need to watch first (because there's a chance you haven't seen it): THE APOSTLE.

Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. reut.rs/4qzZRCE

I have four articles in the paper today, but this is the one of which I'm most proud. BOYZ N THE HOOD turns 35 this year, so I wrote an anniversary tribute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/13/a...

Yup. This is largely why I included THE PURGE in the "Prophetic Horror" chapter of Fear Not!, as it exposes the American idol of violence.

Four months after the raid, federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nearly all of the immigrants have already been deported. We’ve interviewed 15 immigrants detained that night; all denied gang membership.

Stopped traffic in Edinburgh to do some on-the-ground Filmspotting research. Coming Friday: our 30th anniversary Sacred Cow review of Trainspotting. (Thanks to @micahrickard.bsky.social for help tracking down the location.)

In our latest Sight and Sound 100 conversation, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I talk about Carl Dreyer's ORDET, a miraculous film about a miracle: thereveal.film/48-tie-ordet...

Heading to Copenhagen too, in case there are any Filmspotting listeners there who want to have a meetup some time first week of March…

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Stopped traffic in Edinburgh to do some on-the-ground Filmspotting research. Coming Friday: our 30th anniversary Sacred Cow review of Trainspotting. (Thanks to @micahrickard.bsky.social for help tracking down the location.)

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

An atheist and a satanist walk into a bone temple… larsenonfilm.com/28-years-lat...

Delighted to report that the second edition of Becoming Alien is available for preorder!

We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Alex Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. Read our full story: https://propub.li/4qUNfXH

Heading to Copenhagen too, in case there are any Filmspotting listeners there who want to have a meetup some time first week of March…

An atheist and a satanist walk into a bone temple… larsenonfilm.com/28-years-lat...

Gazzara's Cosmo had to have been a model for Burt Reynolds' Jack Horner, as we discuss in a recent Filmspotting bonus ep on BOOGIE NIGHTS. (Available for Filmspotting Family members: filmspotting.supportingcast.fm )

This is how I prepare for a trip to Stockholm.

Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!! To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.

Gazzara's Cosmo had to have been a model for Burt Reynolds' Jack Horner, as we discuss in a recent Filmspotting bonus ep on BOOGIE NIGHTS. (Available for Filmspotting Family members: filmspotting.supportingcast.fm )

"When I pretend to be someone else, I go to the depths of nothingness. The more I do that—become nothing—and the more I let the character take over, the more I feel like that person. When you become the person, nothing is contrived.”—Catherine O'Hara www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...

As a reminder, I'm doing a seminar on A RAISIN IN THE SUN on Feb. 22. coolidge.org/package/semi...

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Highly recommend The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.